Word: biopics
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...pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist as a hopeless mess...
...pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist as a hopeless mess. Harris' great performance has a kind of blank grimness; it contains not a single moment of charm or self-awareness. Harris never allows his exhibitions of Pollock's inexplicable gift to soften or redeem...
...writing instruments (the quills that give this movie its title). Undaunted, he uses his blood for ink, his clothing as paper. Stripped, he manages to write a story in his excrement on his cell walls. Finally, his tormentors rip out his tongue. Quills is not, obviously, your standard biopic...
...result that it had some trouble retaining the delicate balance of humor and pathos that gives Bennett's play its special flavor. This story of a king whose reason slips away, whose Establishment wishes him gone and whose sons plot against him could make the material for a solemn biopic. Yet even the most dramatic moments in Bennett's play are punctuated with laughs and a tongue-in-cheek manner. The recreation of this difficult symbiosis between tragedy and farce was all the harder as the play's director brought a completely different agenda to this production...
This tense scene is from the current Hindi film hit Jungle, a biopic about Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 53, a notorious murderer, elephant poacher and India's most-wanted criminal. But in real life in the southern state of Karnataka, the bandit is playing out a much more riveting drama. Sunday, July 30, in a caper that could have come from a movie script, Veerappan led a dozen fellow bandits into the home of Rajkumar, 73, an ailing film icon, chattily asked Rajkumar's wife if she recognized him (she did, later recalling his unmissable mustache) and handed her an audiotape...